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Ubuntu 6.06 'Dapper Drake' Released
BBSeXoDuS writes "Ubuntu Dapper Drake has been finally been released. Run on over to the download site while it's still hot. From the announcement: 'Ubuntu 6.06 LTS introduces functionality that simplifies common Linux server deployment processes. For system administrators setting up large numbers of web, mail and related servers, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS offers the fastest and most consistent path to deployment, combined with the availability of global commercial support where needed.' "
It is... *sniffs delicately*... brown?
OK, we got the post of "almost" released, and I was waiting for the "released" post!
Anyway, I moved to the 6.06 RC from Breezy 5.10 and it was smooth. My laptop is loving the new Network Manager and updated Xorg with Gnome 2.0. It is a very nice package. I think Ubuntu will be on the forefront of competitive alternative OS's to Windows, especially if Vista keeps slipping!
To convince your friends to try it, order 10 PC-edition CD's delivered at your door for free and give them away to people mildly interested.
It's live-CD installer style. Will probably impress many.
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
If you mod this up, your slashdot background will turn into a beautiful sunset!
For those of you dreading a long, drawn-out upgrade process, Ubuntu can upgrade using update-manager from many previous Debian builds. It's a seamless transition that can run in the background while you continue to work. One (count 'em) reboot is required, and you're done.
Congrats to the Dapper team.
At last it is on Slashdot. I've been refreshing the front page all day:) And no, I am not a sad sad geek. Ok, maybe a little:)
I already fill my functionality needs with RHEL and CentOS but it would be nice if this release of ubuntu could perform the same tasks (plus comercial support) and on top of that "looks good" and is easy to use. This will surely raise the bar even higher than already set by Fedora5.
The best test environment is production. - Me
chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
Bother. I just installed Ubuntu a few days ago. Now I'll have to test its upgrade procedure :-)
:-)
I've been tracking Dapper since flight 3, its as easy as:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -yqq dist-upgrade
(and wait)
Alternatively, you could just boot & wait - the updater will update everything in the background for you
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As a Dapper user since before it was cool I'd like to warn everyone using Apple products, especially iBooks and other slightly more supported hardware, against upgrading just yet. A severe bug was introduced having to do with the ATI cards in laptops on May 29 that causes persistant systems freezes. (Why would you upgrade all of xorg two days before release?) The errors are unrecoverable and require a system reboot. There hasn't been much in the way of response, as everyone seems to be celebrating the release of Dapper.
More information can be found in the forums and launchpad.net.
What if the entire Universe were a chrooted environment with everything symlinked from the host?
After installing dapper, I highly reccommend grabbing easyubuntu - it's a little package to get mp3s, wmvs, flash, java, crappy non-free nvidia/ati drivers etc all automagically installed.
Takes one of the niggles out of ubuntu.
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http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubun tu
Look at the table on that page.
More useful information for geeks... although the support is indeed the real news.
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/releasenotes/606
Upgraded from latest Breezy to Dapper earlier today. Only had to download 594MB of archives, and it took 95 minutes in total (download+unpacking/configuring).
Belief is the currency of delusion.
Thanks but I plan to let the servers cool down for a few days before I hit them.
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Having used Dapper for the last few months as a desktop user, I can say its a pretty neat system, but carries a few flaws. It boots far quicker than Breezy, seems to close down faster as well, has a smartend orange look (albeit resembling Vista a little but dumping that uniform Brown look for good), while the new shutdown dialog is quite cool. It remains the free easy-to-use distro of choice, at least for me.
So what sucks? SAMBA's graphical configuration is still useless for setting up Linux-Windows shares. The new Gnome Screensaver actually seems a retrograde step, losing RSS, per-screensaver settings and several popular XScreensaver hacks - supposedly in the name of ease-of-use. I can imagine users will fall over themselves with hacks to get XScreensaver working again.
Simply use Update Manager. 5.10 will say that the new release 6.06 is now available, with a button that will download an upgrade tool that will handle the repository and package transitions plus the postinstall stuff for you in a safe manner. If you've been running a 6.06 beta, just download any new package updates. If you've updated the beta in the last two days, you're basically already running 6.06 LTS.
Alternate (amd64)
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If you're running a 6.06 beta, you don't have to do anything. Boot up, log in & wait for the update manager to let you know its finished updating.
If you're running 5.10 (or earlier), the short, easy instructions are available here - cli instructions are:
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i386
amd64
powerpc
p.s. you're getting the Dekstop version here. Described thus on the download page:
You should be able to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list without any trouble. Change all instances of "breezy" to "dapper". Do an apt-get update and then an apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade.
The DVD links on the standard Ubuntu download page all point to breezy releases. I did some poking around and found: http://torrent.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/release/ dvd
Good luck!
The package isn't a real program. It's a meta package to group other packages together. It's best use is allowing you to change between ubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu and edubuntu.
:)
There's no harm in removing that package (even though it's not very user friendly and doesn't tell you)
On the plus side though, Firefox 1.5.0.3 is already installed!
Ubuntu-desktop is just a meta-package - it installs default ubuntu desktop components. It doesn't have to be there, inless you are using a development version and wish to follow changes to the defaults as they are made. You can happily remove it if you need to.
bring on the Edgy Eft
ubuntu-desktop is just a metapackage that has dependencies to basically all desktop apps that are installed by default in Ubuntu (so that for example if you do a minimal install you can later on just do a "desktop installation" later on very easily (e.g. sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop). So you can remove ubuntu-desktop safely and everything will work just fine (which you would find out also if you read the package description of gnome-desktop).
Also, one particularly useful feature I've found with ubuntu/debian package handling is in cases where you need/want a slightly newer version of an application that's not yet available in the repositories with the version you want, you can do "sudo apt-get build-dep foobar" and then very easily compile your foobar yourself without having to worry about finding every header package that you need for compiling the app (something I find incredibly annoying on e.g. RHEL). Also, you can for most of the time install debian unstable packages as well if you're very impatient with getting packages not yet available for ubuntu.
That's the next version, where all the new "experimental" stuff is going to be included. And it will still come out before Vista...
Red Hat drops their free version of Red Hat Linux. They had mind-share. They owned the grass roots Linux movement. They created a huge void.
:)
Debian is plugging along quietly producing a great, but somewhat difficult to use (for newbies and non-unix geeks) distro. Ubuntu comes along, works closely with the Debian project to produce a polished version. Now, we're back to the good old days of Linux
Red Hat *really* screwed-up, but I'm glad that Debian and Ubuntu have filled the void as they'll never pull a stunt like RH did.
I'm generally amazed at how easy it is to get things working under Linux, so I'm
interested to know what things prevent you from having a "smooth" experience with
Linux.
Care to embellish your original post?
*sigh* back to work...
It is very simple: 6.06 = 2006 June
...
The previous Ubuntu version was released in 2005 October and its version was
(wait for it)
"5.10"!
Well, I switched to Dapper Drake from Breezy Badger on April 14th. Breezy Badger had run flawless the entire time since it was released up until April 6th.. I then recieved an i915 irq wait error where X would crash and wouldn't come back up without a reboot. This would repeat itself every couple of days, and all the information I could find on it said that it was fixed in the kernel in January of 2005 by the Ubuntu devs. With no explanation of what caused the issue and with it already having been "resolved" 16 months before by the same team who produced my distro, I decided to switch to the (then) alpha of Dapper Drake. I haven't had the problem since.
This release is the most polished and the nicest version "out of the box" that the Ubuntu team has ever released. It's a fantastic distro and one that has worked amazingly well since the alpha versions with one major glaring exception. The printing subsystem is a giant leap backwards . Cups 1.2 seems to be a large part of the problem, with the Ubuntu/Gnome print manager as the the other part. I've lost my ability to print in duplex mode which worked in Warty, Hoary, and Breezy. Print jobs now print one page at a time (rather than one continuous feed), like it's sending a 30MB per page document to the printer. Some printers don't work at all anymore. We have a Cannon ImageRunner at work that you could identify as a "LaserJet 6". I've tried every which way to get that think to work (including trying different printer models and/or drivers) and print jobs will just spool indefinitely. Right click on a printer and go to properties and it takes 7-8 seconds with 100% CPU utilization before it opens (1-2 seconds with normal load under Breezy). I don't see how this made it out the door with the printing subsystem in this state.
Hopefully for others sakes, I'm just surrounded by the 4 or 5 models of HP and Cannon printers that suck with this version of Ubuntu and it's not a widespread issue. It's a huge disappointment and one that I hope they can fix in the coming months. Since this is my work machine, I was very excited about the 3 years of support on the desktop and I wanted to stick with this version of Linux for quite some time. Without a fix to these printing issues, it's going to be painful.
I have a laptop with a Broadcom 4306 and my AP is set for WPA-PSK (TKIP) and it works great with the new Network Manager (there were a couple of very minor gotchas that resolutions to are in the forums). The cool thing is that it now does WPA personal, enterprise (PEAP, LEAP, etc.), and WPA2, so it is ahead of Windows on this one.
You might want to verify your card is supported (there is also ndiswrapper to use windows drivers but it is a lot more hands-on) before installing, however. Hey, if they can do Broadcom's, they should be able to figure out anything.
[RIAA] says its concern is artists. That's true, in just the sense that a cattle rancher is concerned about its cattle.
Automatix has not been ported to Dapper yet. Use BUMPS. Its is simple and just works.
I was going to get the torrent, but the Pirate Bay is down!
Join the anonymous, help develop the network: http://www.i2p2.de
Automatix is also highly talked about similar to easyubuntu but if you compare the features in easyubuntu.
Pick for yourself but after trying ubuntu and the multimedia fiasco trust me and WMF, you will want one of these.
Procrastinating life a way at a rapid rate of speed.
You are best to use Easy Ubuntu, reccommended by Ubuntu developers and package maintainers over competing scripts.
ATI Mobility 7500 Graphics Card
.deb package) I end up trying to build and install the source code. This rarely "just works". This is the biggest pain in the ass. I am a software engineer and am quite familar with makefiles and compilers, etc. But sometimes after a long day of solving problems I just want to come home and not have a fight with my Linux box. There are several software apps that looked cool as a moose, but I couldn't get them to build and install from source.
Just could not get the DRI drivers to work right under Breezy 5.10, until about a month ago when Breezy released an Xorg update, then things went smoothly. Under Dapper things are even better, woooo hooo!
Wi-Fi
Wireless and wired networking was flaky. Was constantly dropping to a term session to restart or reconfigure networking. The manual setup for WPA access points sucked. All is forgiven in Dapper, since the new network manager rocks!
Sound
Could not get Breezy to record sound from my line-in at all. This sucked. Haven't tried this yet on Dapper
DVD
Playing DVDs was a bitch to figure out way back when (when I was a real newbie). Ripping DVDs on the other hand still sucks. DVD rip is cool, but combining ripped tracks into one new DVD title then burning back to a disc just doesn't work under linux. DVDAuthor is the best thing I have seen, but it doesn't work and is a pain to use, even the GUI for it, QDVDAuthor, sucks.
Windows Programs
I have several applications in Windows that I just need to run. I bought Crossover Office from codeweavers and this gets me several programs that I need, but falls short. Granted, this is a bit outside the scope, but it gets honorable mention.
Automount
Settings in my fstab file just get ignored. I have a FAT32 partition that I use to share crap between my Windows NTFS boot and my Linux boot. I added all the appropriate settings to fstab, but Gnome (or whoever) still mounts the FAT32 partition as read-only even though I commanded it to allow user mounts and RW mode.
Installing Any Application From Source
Since many applications out there only exist in source code (i.e. no
It is also worth mentioning that I started reacquainting myself with Linux about a year or so ago after abandoning Red Hat in the late 90's. Back in the 90's Linux was a real pain in the ass, hell getting my printer to do anyting back then before CUPS was like brain surgery... So I still have the stigma here and there. I have said this before, and I will say it again. Linux is today what Windows 95/98 was back when it came out, that is, for the most part things work, but every now and then you have to fight with something in a terminal window. I think the next 5 years will bring Linux to level that makes Windows look like a costly alternative to Linux, rahter than the view of Linux as a free alternative to Windows.
.torrent files are on all the mirrors. Well seeded and screaming fast right now.
No need to wait!
I've at least a dozen of original Ubuntu 5.04 CD-s over I've been giving to friends, family and so on.
:(
I was pretty excited since this is the first Linux distro that I could just boot and it gives me internet connectivity, nice true color desktop, firefox, irc and so on and so on right out of the box, without me touching anything.
It was relatively intuitive to use too.
Now however I downloaded the 6.06 ISO and it won't even run here anymore. It just run it, it shows the cursor and get stuck there forever.
I hope the next releases work better
(my system btw: Celeron 3GHz, 1GB RAM, Audigy 2, GeForce 4MX)
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -yqq dist-upgrade
As easy as that, huh?
I just don't understand why Linux has not caught on with non-technical folks.
What? Ubuntu isn't mature enough to use its official logo on slashdot? We have to use Debian instead? (disclaimer: this is in no way negative toward Debian. Debian is great, fine, etc, etc.) Someone get the logo updated.
Well most people will have to update their apt-get sources.list. This is how:
/etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list_bkup
/etc/apt/sources.list
Change your sources.list to reflect the sources.list as shown on [WWW] http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/6666:
sudo cp
Then:
sudo wget http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/d6666 -O
Save the file and then type this in a terminal:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
Please, it's not as if theres any need or reason for rivalry.
Both can co-exist, and it's only childish coments such as these that encourage the rabid fanboyism that this community suffers from.
Call me a lazy windows user
:-)
Yes, I will - 'cause you didn't finish reading my post:
Alternatively, you could just boot & wait - the updater will update everything in the background for you
Oh, and upgrading between major releases of windows has always needed physical media as far as I can tell, no updating via windows update for you!
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funniest thing i've seen all day. An I live in Texas
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
I just don't understand why Linux has not caught on with non-technical folks.
I gave technical advice for a technical forum. Here's how you do it if you're non-techie:
1) Boot.
2) Go to update manager. It will tell you there's a new release.
3) Choose upgrade.
Can you tell me any other operating system that's easier to upgrade between major releases? I seriously fucking doubt it.
Looking over your comments history, I'd say you deserve my nickname more then I do (have you read my diary yet?)
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Friggin' XP asked for a reboot yesterday after installing the genuine windows advantage check whatever " critical update." WTF? XP might be ready for the desktop, but it's almost ready to be hurled against a hard surface too.
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
If you're back on a hoary hedgehog build, you'll have to update to Breezy Badger before updating to Dapper Drake. Both are reasonably straightforward operations, but my undestanding is that it works best if you upgrade one version at a time.
If you don't have much invested in your current install, though, it might be worthwhile to download a Dapper install disc and start from scratch. The upgrade path "shouldn't" cause any problems, but a clean install is just a touch more likely to go smoothly.
As for the broadcom wireless... I don't have first-hand experience, but I hear good things about Dapper's wireless support. I know some people have, in fact, been able to get wireless working quickly under Dapper. Someone else may be able to give you more details about support for broadcom adapters, specifically.
Well, looking at bug #1, I do think they try.
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
Kubuntu 6.06 has also been released and is fully supported by Canonical. You can download it and order free Kubuntu CDs through Shipit.
Kubuntu features the latest version of the ever popular and advanced K Desktop Environment, which has killer apps such as the AmaroK music player, the Kaffeine movie player, the Konqueror file manager and web browser, and the KOffice suite.
When I was updating, I had a problem that the update option stopped appearing in update-manager.
There's a bunch of possible reasons. One may be that the mirrors haven't updated yet, in which case you'll have to wait. My problem was that when I rejected the update for the first time, update-manager for some reason stops displaying the update for 24 hours or something. (Devs, this isn't very smart behaviour...)
I found the way to solve this issue on the forums:
Run:
sudo update-manager -d
(I'm not sure what this does, and update-manager shockingly lacks a manpage, but it worked for me.)
Ubuntu's Live CDs have always sucked. I downloaded the Hoary Live CD and it never seemed to work properly. Today, I spent all morning downloading the Dapper CD...twice! Both times the ISO crapped out on me and didn't boot properly on start up. It displayed an insert curser and hung for 2 minutes. Then it went to Grub. I am now using Bittorrent to download the alternate install CD which hopefully will work.
I love Ubuntu, but this live cd graphical installer, IMHO, is a complete and utter failure. Shame on Ubuntu for putting this kind of crap out. I've wasted half a day trying to get the CD to work. I'm not using weird hardware...I have a common Asus Mobo and an Athlon 64 chip. There is no reason for this not to work. I consider myself a sophistocated Linux user, and if a newb had to go through all this trouble, they would have quit by now. Arg.
I am usually an Ubuntu FanBoy, so please, feel free to mod me down as a Troll. But its true. Dapper seems to be sucking pretty hard right now.